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As reading scores fall, states turn to phonics — but not without a fight

Posted 4/30/25

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix it. More than a dozen states have enacted laws banning public school educators from teaching youngsters to read using an approach that’s been popular for […]

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